A holistic approach for decision on selection of end-of-life products recovery options

Ziout, Aiman; Azab, Ahmed; Atwan, M.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.10.001

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“…physical properties of products, components thereof or materials from which these are made; hence, decisions made at this stage are important and may be affected by many considerations (i.e. engineering, business, environmental, and societal factors) (Iacovidou et al, 2017b;Ziout et al, 2014). Seemingly negligible changes in chemical composition in percentage by mass terms (e.g.…”

Section: Maintaining/transforming the Technical Value Of Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A pathway to circular economy: Developing a conceptual framework for complex value assessment of resources recovered from waste

Iacovidou

Millward-Hopkins

Busch

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tThe transition to a circular economy, where the value of resources is preserved in the technosphere, must be supported by policies and operational decision-making based on evidence. Existing methods used to provide this evidence (e.g. LCA, LCSA, CBA) are not robust enough to adequately address the creation and dissipation of systemic and multidimensional value that spans the social, environmental, economic and technical domains. This study proposes a novel, conceptual approach that seeks to assess how complex value is created, destroyed and distributed in resource recovery from waste systems. This approach expands beyond conventional methods of estimating value. It combines scientific and engineering methods with a socio-political narrative grounded in the systems of provision (sop) approach, and provides a comprehensive, analytical framework for making the transition to a resource-efficient future. This framework has the potential to connect bottom-up and top-down approaches in assessing resource recovery from waste systems, and address systemic challenges through transparency and flexibility, while accounting for the dynamic and non-linear nature of commodities flow and infrastructure provision in the overall system. This creates the pathway towards circular economy, and lays the foundations for future advances in computational and assessment methodologies in the field of RRfW. Crown

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Section: Maintaining/transforming the Technical Value Of Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A pathway to circular economy: Developing a conceptual framework for complex value assessment of resources recovered from waste

Iacovidou

Millward-Hopkins

Busch

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

212

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“…Their EOL focus stems from the extended producer responsibility incorporating a detailed distinction of eight EOL solutions. Although similarly from a technical perspective and with a focus on EOL, the model by [34] has four EOL solutions and fewer processing steps than [33]. They only separate 'material extraction & processing' and 'manufacturing & assembly'.…”

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Cascade Use and the Management of Product Lifecycles

2017

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This paper explores the challenges related to the End-Of-Life phase of products and circular systems of reuse and recycling within the commonly established frameworks of product lifecycles. Typically, Original Equipment Manufacturer-centric supply chain perspectives neglect the complexity at the End-Of-Life where many third-parties are involved in reuse and recycling activities. Based on a review of product lifecycle and related recycling literature, this study proposes the application of 'cascades', a term originally coined within the biomass domain. We propose and subsequently apply the 'cascade use methodology' and identify additional and value-adding End-Of-Life solutions for products and materials. The adoption of cascade utilization into product lifecycles is analyzed and critically discussed using case studies from independent remanufacturing and tire recycling, focusing on the End-Of-Life while excluding business models as renting or sharing. Although theoretically feasible, we argue that the practical adoption of 'cascade use' deserves more attention from researchers and practitioners in order to become an integral part of the comprehensive management of product lifecycles.

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“…4,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] . Du et al 4 Ziout et al 15 show that the effectiveness of recoverable end-of-life products is determined by the environmental, the societal, and the corporate intangible benefits. Chan 16 believes that economical, environmental, societal, and ecological factors play an important role in determining the performance of recoverable end-of-life products.…”

Section: Performance Evaluation Of Recoverable Endof-life Productsmentioning

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Evaluating the Performance of Recoverable End-of-life Products in the Reverse Supply Chain

Wibowo¹,

Grandhi²

2017

IJNDC

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Evaluating the performance of recoverable end-of-life products with respect to a set of specific criteria is challenging. This is due to multi-dimensional nature of the decision making process, multiple evaluation criteria, and subjective and imprecise assessments. To effectively deal with this issue, this paper presents a multicriteria decision making method for evaluating the performance of recoverable end-of-life products in the reverse supply chain. The multi-dimensional nature of the performance evaluation process is handled in the context of multicriteria analysis. Linguistic terms approximated by triangular fuzzy numbers are used to tackle the subjectiveness and imprecision of the performance evaluation process. A new algorithm is developed for producing an overall performance index for every recoverable end-of-life product alternative across all performance evaluation criteria. A recoverable end-of-life products' performance evaluation problem is presented for demonstrating the applicability of the method.

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A holistic approach for decision on selection of end-of-life products recovery options

Cited by 89 publications

References 35 publications

A pathway to circular economy: Developing a conceptual framework for complex value assessment of resources recovered from waste

A pathway to circular economy: Developing a conceptual framework for complex value assessment of resources recovered from waste

Cascade Use and the Management of Product Lifecycles

Evaluating the Performance of Recoverable End-of-life Products in the Reverse Supply Chain

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